The American Numismatic Society Newsletter : Winter 1981

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Winter 1981

Kraay and Agopoff Receive Society Medal Awards at Annual Meeting

Colin Kraay

COLIN KRAAY AWARDED
HUNTINGTON MEDAL

Colin M. Kraay, noted classicist and
Keeper of the Heberden Coin Room at
Oxford, was awarded the Archer M.
Huntington Medal for 1980 at the
Society's Annual Meeting. Professor
Kraay’s
Society includes participation as Visit-
ing Scholar at the 1958 Graduate
Seminar and election as a Correspon-
ding member in 1968.

To the joy of all, Mr. Kraay, who is
currently serving as Visiting Professor
at the University of British Columbia in

Vancouver, was able to attend the
meeting and receive the award in
person.

Award Citation

The medal, given in recognition of
outstanding achievement in numismatic
scholarship, was presented to Professor
Kraay by Theodore V. Buttrey of The
University of Michigan, Chairman of the
Huntington Award Committee.

“The Council of the American Numis-

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close association with the’

14 FELLOWS ELECTED

Fourteen Fellows of the Society were
elected by the Council at its January 10
meeting bringing to 145 the total
number of voting members of the
organization. The election concludes an
intensive six-month review of qualified
members by the Council.

The new Fellows include Jere L.
Bacharach, Associate Professor of His-
tory at the University of Washington,
Seattle, and a member of the Society
since 1966. Professor Bacharach, an
Islamic specialist, is a frequent contri-
butor to scholarly numismatic journals.
He was co-editor of the G.C. Miles
festschrift and is currently a member of
the ANS Committee on Islamic and
South Asian Coins. Herbert M. Bergen
of Fullerton, California, has been an
Associate since 1962. Mr. Bergen, a
retired geologist, is a past President of
the American Numismatic Association
with broad collecting interests within
the American field. Basil C. Demetriadi,
Associate since 1972, is a resident of
Kifissia, Greece, and a frequent visitor
to the Society. His area of collecting
interest is Ancient Greek.

Edward Glassmeyer of Darien, Con-
necticut, joined the Society in 1976,
following his return from Greece where
he had served as President of Athens
College. He is a Trustee and immediate
past Treasurer of the Archaeological
Institute of America. Adon A. Gordus,
Associate since 1968 and Professor of
Chemistry at The University of Michi-
gan, Ann Arbor, has done pioneering
work in the field of neutron activation
analysis, most recently involving the
“streak method’’ of non-destructive
analysis of coins, the results of which
have appeared in several articles. Reed
Hawn of Austin, Texas, Associate since
1974, is an independent business man
and an extremely active collector inter-

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AGOP AGOPOFF SALTUS
MEDALLIST

New Jersey sculptor Agop M. Ago-
poff was awarded the J. Sanford Saltus
Medal for 1980 at ceremonies held
during the Annual Meeting of the ANS
on January 10, 1981. Mr. Agopoff
becomes the thirty-first artist to be
recognized by the Society for distin-
guished achievement in the art of the
medal since the inception of the prize in
1919.

Mr. Agopoff, who, in addition to his
medallic work, has completed a number
of corporate and private commissions, is
perhaps best known for the portrait
relief which he created for the John F.
Kennedy Memorial in Hyannisport,
Massachusetts.

Agop Agopoff

Granville W. Carter, Chairman of the
Saltus Award Committee, presented the
citation on behalf of the Society:

‘Sixty years is a goodly number, and
that is the period of time, since 1919,
during which the J. Sanford Saltus
Medal has been awarded by the
American Numismatic Society in recog-
nition of signal achievement in the art of

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ASSOCIATES ELECTED

At the January 10 meeting of the
Council, 54 new Associate members
were added to the Society's rolls,
including 14 foreign members and a
healthy number whose applications
were filed during the course of the New
York International Numismatic Conven-
tion, held in New York in early
December.

Those elected are: David A. Alvarez,
Miami, Florida; Marc L. Ames, Bridge-
water, New Jersey; William F. Apple-
gate, Madison, New Jersey; Anna M.
Balaguer, Barcelona, Spain; Byron Lu-
ther Barksdale, Galveston, Texas; Paul
Stephen Berry, Ontario, Canada; Ste-
phen Hedley Betts, Campbell, Califor-
nia; Robinson S. Brown, Jr., Louisville,
Kentucky; Thomas Bentley Cederlind,
Oregon City, Oregon; and Kang Wing
Chan, Brooklyn, New York.

Also, Bertram M. Cohen, Leominster,
Maine; J.K. Costello, London, England;
Thomas Culhane, West New York, New
Jersey; Marc Cullen, Chico, California;
José Eduardo De Cara, San Nicolas,
Argentina; Andre P. Decarie, Warren,
New Jersey; Robert E. Doubleday, Ft.
Montgomery, New York; Rodney D.
Driver, West Kingston, Rhode Island;
Alexander R. Edwards, Succasunna,
New Jersey; and Miguel Estrella Go-
mez, Santo Domingo, Dominican Re-
public.

Also, Martin Firman, Rye, New York;
Thomas F. Fitzgerald, Covina, Califor-
nia; Robert F. Gardner, Denver, Colo-
rado; David M. Gordon, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; Marty Greene, Tarzana,
California; Donato Grosser, Brooklyn,
New York; Bruce R. Hagen, Stony
Brook, New York; Robert D. Hatfield,
Taylor, Michigan; Tristan Hillgarth,
London, England; Fred lIannamico,
Newark, California; and Saeb N. Jarou-
di, Geneva, Switzerland.

Also, Eva C. Jaunzems, Ridgefield,
Connecticut; James H. Joy, Arlington,
Virginia; Clifton Larson, Ames, Iowa;
Peter Whitley Laycock, Brussels, Bel-
gium; Giuseppe-Libero Mangieri, Saler-
no, Italy; John J. Lyons, Brooklyn, New
York; Grant V. McClanahan, Washing-
ton, D.C.; William Wayne Moore,
Portland, Oregon; and Leo W. Mooy,
Caracas, Venezuela.

Also, Shane Moran, Sydney, New
South Wales, Australia; Peter Mourit-
zen, Hvidovre, Denmark; Ratomir Niko-
lic, New York, New York; Normand
Pepin, New York, New York; Edwin J.
Reiter, Oakhurst, New Jersey; Joseph
J. Roma, Brooklyn, New York; Robert L.
Ross, Monsey, New York; Willi Schleer,

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Veberlingen, West Germany; Gunther
Schluter, Berlin, West Germany; Fred-
erick J. Schumacher, White Plains, New
York; Brian R. Stickney, Miami, Flori-
da; Michael Toledo, New York, New
York; Irene G. Walker, McLean, Virgin-
ia; and Dennis R. Tupper, Santa Ana,
California.

Reinstatements

The Society is also pleased to wel-
come back as reinstated Associate
Members: T. Robert S. Broughton,
Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Michael
Roy Curry, Ontario, Canada; Ralph J.
Marx, Canoga Park, California; Jack J.
Rosecrans, Skokie, Illinois; and Leslie
Rosenbaum, Washington, D.C.

INFORMATION WANTED ON
COUNTERMARKED COINS

Julio-Claudian bronze coins bearing
countermarks are currently under inves-
tigation at the Istituto Storia Antica,
Bologna. Collectors who possess rele-
vant material are asked to send details
and, if possible, photographs to Profes-
sor Emanuela Ercolani, Istituto Storia
Antica, c/o Facolta Lettere Filosofia,
Via Zamboni, 38, 40100 Bologna, Italy.

Calendar (continued from page 6)
April

5-7 American Council of Learned
Societies meeting (Society re-
presented by L.A. Elam)

11 Spring Members Meeting of the
Society - Shirley R. Howarth,
Guest Speaker, 3:00.
Council Meeting, 1:30
Greek Coins Committee Meet-
ing, 11:00

East Asian Coins Committee
Meeting
16 Columbia University Seminar on

Classical Civilization (paper by
N.M. Waggoner)

International Congress of Medi-

eval Scholars, Kalamazoo and
Ann Arbor (paper by A.M.
Stahl)

9 Managing Committee of the
American School of Classical
Studies at Athens (Society re-
presented by N.M. Waggoner)

15 Numismatic Literature 105, ab-
stract submission deadline

MEMBERS’ MAILINGS, 1980

One of the tangible benefits of
Associate membership in the Society is
receipt of the various publications
issued to all members as well as
discounts on other ANS books. During
the past year, Associates received
publications having a retail value of
$68.50 together with an additional
$18.75 in discount opportunities.

Mailings during 1980 included the
Annual Report sent out in late January
and in February the Winter 1980 issue
of the ANSNewsletter, which included a
discount coupon toward the purchase of
The John Max Wulfing Collection in
Washington University, by Kevin Her-
bert.

Numismatic Literature 103 (March
1980) and The Western Coinages of
Nero, NNM 161, by David W. Mac-
Dowall, were both mailed in March.
April saw publication of ANSMN 24
(1979), our annual journal. In May the
Wulfing ACNAC was mailed to Fellows
and to Associates who subscribed
through the discount offer.

Our Spring ANSNewsletter was is-
sued in early June and the Summer
issue in August in time for the annual
ANA convention. An updated catalogue
of ANS publications in print and other
Society sale items was mailed in
September and, in October, Dues No-
tices went out to all members (Society
dues are for the calendar year).

The Fall ANSNewsletter, issued in
November, contained a discount offer
for William E. Metcalf’s work, The
Cistophori of Hadrian, issued by the
ANS as NS 15. The book was published
in late December. Earlier in December,
NL 104 (September 1980) was mailed as
was also the ‘‘Second Notice’ for 1981
dues. Only paid-up members of the
Society receive mailings.

HUMANITIES COMMISSION
REPORT RELEASED

Learned societies can play a vital and
varied role in strengthening the human-
ities, according to The Humanities in
American Life: Report of the Commis-
sion on the Humanities. The work of a
32-member panel sponsored by the
Rockefeller Foundation and chaired by
Richard W. Lyman, former president of
Stanford and now president of the
foundation, the report surveys the
humanities at every level of education,
the system of humanistic research, and

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matic Society is pleased to announce
that the Archer M. Huntington Medal-
list for 1980 is Colin Kraay, Keeper of
the Heberden Coin Room in the
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

‘“When preparing to award the Medal
your committee inevitably glances over
the list of earlier medallists. No one
could fail to be impressed by its quality,
for it includes scholars of the highest
standing who have produced work of
lasting merit. Yet necessarily many
great names of the nineteenth and early
twentieth century are missing, since our
medal began to be awarded only in
1918. One obvious candidate would
have been the great British numismatist
Barclay V. Head, who was for many
years editor of the Numismatic Chront-
cle, and author of a number of the
volumes of the Catalogue of Greek
Coins in the British Museum, of
Principal Coins of the Greeks, and of
course especially of the invaluable
Historia Numorum. He never received
our award, for he had already died in
1914.

“But our 1980 Medallist helps to
remind us of his great predecessor and
compatriot. While still a student at
Magdalene College, Oxford, Colin
Kraay was awarded the Barclay Head
Prize in Ancient Numismatics. Already
in his earliest published works he was
investing old material with new mean-
ing, and this Society was privileged to
publish his Aes Coinage of Galba where
for the first time a complete Roman
bronze coinage was submitted to an
in-depth die study, previously a tech-
nique applied largely to Greek coinages.

“This study, along with his several
articles on coins of the Flavians, the
exemplary catalogue of finds from
Vindonissa, and most recently the
publication in Sylloge form of the coins
of Augustus in the Ashmolean Museum
(with C.H.V. Sutherland), would serve
to rank him among the important
Roman numismatists. Yet his contri-
butions to the study of Greek coinages
have been even more numerous and
weighty. Many of his articles deal
patiently and painstakingly with indivi-
dual Greek mints, particularly in the
West—such as Caulonia, Croton, Posei-
donia, Sybaris.

“Or again, being utterly without fear,
he has attacked some of the most
notorious problems in the field: the
chronology of the earliest owls of
Athens, the date of the Demarateion,
the meaning of Aristotle Ath. Pol. 10.

All of this work has culminated in the

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magnificent Archaic and Classical
Greek Coins, a work which will be the
standard in its subject for years to come.

“‘We have cause to be grateful to
Colin Kraay not only for his own work,
but for his generosity in forwarding the
work of others. His unfailing helpful-
ness in the ‘Heberden Coin Room is
legendary. More widely, he has served
the British and the international numis-
matic community by investing his time
and energy in organizations and publi-
cations from which we all profit.

“‘He has served as President both of
the Royal Numismatic Society, and of
the Centro Internazionale di Studi
Numismatici in Naples; as a member of
the British Academy Committee on the
Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, and as
co-editor and contributor to the in-
dispensible Inventory of Greek Coin
Hoards.

‘Perhaps his most daring venture,
and the most fitting, has been accep-
tance of membership on the editorial
committee of the fabled third edition of
Barclay Head's Historia Numorum,
whose first fascicules many of us may
now actually live to see.

“‘The Society is particularly happy to
award the Archer M. Huntington Medal
to Colin Kraay, a colleague who has
continued and enlarged the best tradi-
tions of our discipline.”’

Kraay’s Acceptance

In acknowledging the award, Profes-
sor Kraay addressed the meeting as
follows:

“Mr President, Professor Buttrey,
Ladies and Gentlemen:

“The last time that I addressed the
ANS was in 1973, when I read a
message of greeting from the Royal
Numismatic Society couched in Latin.
Today I will spare you that Latin and
speak in English.

‘When I received Dr. Metcalf’s letter
telling me that the award committee had
chosen me as the medallist for 1980, I
regret to have to tell you that my
reactions were almost exactly those of
my 59 predecessors —an initial sense of
shock, followed very quickly by a wave
of intense pleasure. Only somewhat
later did twinges of doubt and humility
make themselves felt, when I looked
through the list of those to whom your
medal has been awarded.

“Yet even this exercise gave me some
pleasure, for I discovered that the first
numismatist on your list whom I could
claim to have known personally was
none other than Stanley Robinson, your
medallist of 1935, on whose vast

knowledge of Greek coinage I was able
to draw for a full quarter of a century:
indeed my achievements, of Bed
Professor Buttrey has just spoken so
generously, must be due in no small
part to Robinson’s training and exam-
ple. I could of course mention many
other names, but in this company I will
choose only that of Sydney Noe whose
work in several areas has been the
foundation and inspiration of my own,
“But there is perhaps a still earlier
influence to which I should allude, that
of my maternal grandfather. Those of
you who have had any familiarity with
British coinage, including that of the
former Dominions of the British Em-
pire of the period of King George V, will
know that on the truncation of the
King’s bust there are to be seen the
minute letters BM.

“The uninitiated suppose that these
stand for ‘Birmingham Mint,’ or even
‘British Made,’ but they are in fact the
initials of my grandfather, the sculptor
Bertram Mackennal. Although medallic
work was in fact only a small part of his ©
enormous output, most of which consis-
ted of monumental sculpture, of which
examples are to be found all over the
former British Empire, he it must have
been who first showed me that there
was more to coins than their daily
passage from hand to hand.

‘‘Having thus been launched from an
early age on a numismatic track, I think
I was only once in serious danger of
being derailed, when I very nearly
became a curator of a general collection
of classical archaeology. In the event,
however, and fortunately, someone
better qualified than I was got the job,
and Fortuna Redux, that most amiable
of Roman deities, put me back on the
numismatic rails once again.

“In conclusion, I am delighted to be
able to be here today to receive the
medal in person. The record shows that
this is a somewhat rare occurrence;
although Vancouver is not that much
nearer to New York than Oxford, it
somehow feels nearer, being on the
same continent.

“T thank the ANS very warmly for the
great honor it has conferred upon me.
While this is necessarily a recognition of
past achievement, it will also serve as
an encouragement to further work in
that great study in which we are all in
our different ways interested.”’

Exhibit on View
In conjunction with the award to Colin

Kraay, an exhibit of his principal works
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the medal. The first recipient was
James Earle Fraser who did the Buffalo
Nickel, and he was followed by another
29. Ihave been honored to know several
of those recipients, including A.A.
Weinman, John Flanagan, Lee Lawrie,
Paul Jennewein and Donald DeLue, to
name just a few.

“This has been a great period of
American sculpture until, that is, some
15 years ago at which time the American
government chose to go imto the
business of endowing art.

“Through the National Endowment
for the Arts, there have been some fine
things done, programs of great merit.
However, two programs in the field of
sculpture inaugurated in 1967, art in
public places and grants in aid to artists,
have, I am afraid, adversely affected the
proficiency and creativity of sculptors in
America. Many communities find
strange, meaningless forms placed in
public areas, at taxpayers expense,
without access by the citizens to
redress. The so-called panels of experts
in these fields have clandestinely con-
trolled the selection process.

“Moreover, the programs of the
National Endowment lap over into those
of the General Services Administration
and even the National Commission of
Fine Arts, all of which has produced a
derelict situation.

“The record is quite clear to me since
I have served, over the past eleven
years, on the boards of directors of the
American Artists Professional League,
the Council of American Artist Societies
as well as the National Sculpture
Society. This record demonstrates a
planned onslaught on the senses of the

American public through _ nihilistic
sculptural forms which reflect the
perfidy of those who control the

selection process.

“With a new administration in Wash-
ington, which has announced a review
of present policies and the need for
changes, we may hope for a new and
freely creative future for American
sculptors.

“Therefore, the importance of recog-
nizing fine sculptors, accomplished in
their fields, is great. The American
Numismatic Society, as is reflected in
the selection process which produces
recipients of the beautiful Saltus Medal
Award, demonstrates a regard for the
future but this must be an ongoing
process.

“Now in this period of time of which
we are speaking, since 1919, there has
been a sculptor who has been very much

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occupied with fine creativity. His begin-
nings were in Europe, Bulgaria and
Romania, where he was taught in highly
competent schools. His instructors, the
professional artists working with him
over a period of time, produced a person
who is of the caliber to be worthy of the
J. Sanford Saltus Medal. I wish to thank
the other members of the selection
committee, Karen Worth and Joseph
Kiselewski, who unanimously agreed on
the selection of the new recipient, Agop
Agopoff, an academician of the Ameri-
can Academy of Design, a Fellow of the
National Sculpture Society and a mem-
ber of a number of fine artistic
organizations in this country.

“His prizes are many, starting in
Europe where he won the gold medal of
honor for sculpture in Romania. Among
awards received in this country are the
award for sculpture of the Hudson
Valley Art Association and the medal of
the Council of American Artist Socie-
ties, both in 1971, and the Therese
Richard Memorial Prize of the National
Sculpture Society. His most recent
award is rather interesting because in
1980 he received the Lindsey Morris
Memorial Prize, awarded by the Nation-
al Sculpture Society for bas relief, for an
unprecedented second time.

“I call on the J. Sanford Saltus Award
recipient for 1980, Mr. Agop Agopoff, to
please come forward.”’

Mr. Agopoff, who came to the United
States in 1929 from his native Bulgaria,
received the award in person and
remarked in a moving and personal way
on the land where he has expressed his
artistic talents during the greater part of
his career:

“This is one of my joyous moments.

“T am very thankful ta the Saltus
Award Committee and to the American
Numismatic Society for this high award.

““My first joyous moment was when I
became an American citizen, of which I
am most proud.

‘Canaan was God's promised land to
the Israelites, and I firmly believe that
this is God’s chosen land for all the
people, to come and settle here, to start
a new nation for better living and
security, as one nation to live together
in peace, in harmony and love, under
one law and one flag.

“How fortunate we are to be in such a
wonderful country, where real demo-
cracy exists. This is the blessed land of
all men for equal rights, liberty and
pursuit of happiness. Freedom for all
mankind is the foundation of this great
republic, the United States of America!

“This country has more colleges and
universities of all the branches of

(Humanities, continued from page 2)

patterns of support for the humanities.

“The highest educational priority for
America in the 1980s’’ is improving the
quality of our elementary and secondary
schools, the report states. Learned
societies, the Commission suggests,
should help develop guidelines for the
training of humanities teachers and
encourage college and university hu-
manists to work with high schools in
strengthening their humanities curricu-
la. ‘In the long run,’’ the report notes,
“the national repute of the learned
societies and the health of their disci-
plines depend in some measure on high
school teachers in the humanities.”

The report energetically affirms the
importance of humanistic scholarship.
Though it ‘‘seldom attracts public
fanfare’ or ‘‘leads straight to widely
visible results,’’ the Commission em-
phasizes, research in the humanities
must be supported—particularly when
inflation is eroding the financial re-
sources of fellowship programs, re-
search libraries and centers, and schol-
arly publishers.

The Humanities in American Life
($12.50 cloth, $3.50 paper) is published
by the University of California Press,
2223 Fulton St., Berkeley CA 94720.

education than any other country in the
world. Students come here from every-
where to study, royalty for military
training.

“This is the dream land of all
scientists, actors, musicians, singers,
composers, artists, sculptors, painters,
etc. They come here for fulfillment,
success and recognition.

‘We glorify the universally known
great Americans and the dedicated
citizens who brought fame and prosper-
ity not only to their own country but to
the entire world.”’

Agopoff Medals on Display

In conjunction with the award of the
Saltus Medal to Mr. Agopoff, an exhibit
of his medallic work has been installed
in the Society's West Hall. It will remain
on view until March 31.

Featured in the exhibit are displays of
the artist's plaster models and the
resultant struck medals for several of
Agopoff’s prize winning medallic crea-
tions. Also on exhibit is his rare John F.
Kennedy portrait medal, modelled after
the Hyannisport Memorial relief.

OFFICERS FOR 1981

At the Society corporate reorganiza-
tion meeting, held on January 10, 1981,
the current officers were reelected to
additional one-year terms. Officers for
1981 are: Harry W. Bass, Jr., President;
Harry W. Fowler, First Vice-President;
T. James Luce, Second Vice-President;
Leslie A. Elam, Director and Secretary;
John D. Leggett, Jr., Treasurer; John
H. Greenfieldt, Assistant Treasurer.

Committees Appointed

The Executive Committee of the
Council consists of Harry W. Bass, Jr.,
Chairman, Harry W. Fowler, T. James
Luce, John D. Leggett, Jr., Baldwin
Maull, and Mrs. Marion G. Russell. The
Finance Committee members are Harry
W. Fowler, Chairman, Harry W. Bass,
Jr., Arthur Houghton, John D. Leggett,
Jr., Baldwin Maull, and R. Henry
Norweb, Jr. Samuel R. Milbank serves
as member emeritus of both commit-
tees.

THREE ELECTED TO COUNCIL

At the Society's Annual Meeting, the
three incumbent Council members were
elected to new five-year terms: Theo-
dore V. Buttrey of The University of
Michigan, who also serves as Chairman
of the Huntington Medal Award Com-
mittee and Chairman of the Publications
Committee; Harry W. Fowler, Society
First Vice-President, Chairman of the
Finance Committee and a member of
the Greek Coin Committee; and John D.
Leggett, Jr., Treasurer of the Society,
member of the Finance Committee, and
Chairman of the Greek Coin Committee.

MRS. SYDNEY P. NOE, 91

Mrs. Sydney P. Noe died on Decem-
ber 5, 1980, in her ninety-first year. A
memorial service was held on December
20 in New Brunswick where she had
lived during her entire life.

Bess Noe was the wife of Sydney P.
Noe, whose productive career at the
Society spanned more than a_half
century. Following his death in 1969,
Mrs. Noe brought together and pub-
lished a tribute to her late husband
which helps those of us who knew him,
however briefly, to refocus on our
continuing debt of gratitude to him as
well as to perceive more clearly her
warm and deeply personal insight into
the humanity of this administrator/
scholar. We mourn her passing.

CAPITOL HISTORICAL SOCIETY MEDALS TO ANS

The Society was recipient, at the
Annual Meeting, of a gift of U.S.
Capitol Historical Society Medals, pre-
sented by its President, Fred Schwen-
gel.

The four medals issued to date
include the original U.S. Capitol medal
by Ralph Menconi, together with the
first three medals in the series celebra-
ting the bicentennial of the U.S.
Constitution. These are the work of
Frank Gasparro, Robert Weinman (a
member of the Society's Committee on

CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENT ADOPTED

The Society's Constitution was amen-
ded at the Annual Meeting, January 10,
1981, to provide for an _ enlarged
Nominating Committee for Council
Members. As enacted, Article 6, Sec-
tion 3, now provides for a maximum of
five members of the Committee, ap-
pointed each year by the Society's
President.

The Committee is responsible for
screening candidates for the Council
and formally nominating a slate of
Councillors at the Annual Meeting.

The amended Article 6.3 reads as
follows:

The Council shall consist of fifteen
Fellows or Honorary Fellows, and shall
be divided into five classes of three
Councillors each, the classes being
elected in successive years at the
Annual Meetings of the Society. Nomi-
nations for Councillors shall be made at
the Annual Meeting by a Nominating
Committee for Council Members con-
sisting of at least three, and not more
than five Fellows appointed by the
President. Other nominations shall re-
quire the signature of a total of ten
Fellows or Honorary Fellows and must

Medals and Decorations), and Edward
Grove.

Nine additional medals in this com-
memorative series will be presented to
the Society through 1989.

The U.S. Capitol Historical Society
was founded in 1962 as a non-profit
organization devoted to recording the
history of the Capitol building and the
Congress. The commemorative medals
program is a principal endeavor in this
mission.

PAUL JENNEWEIN SUBJECT
OF APRIL LECTURE

C. Paul Jennewein, noted American
sculptor and medallist, will be the
subject of the 1981 Joseph B. and
Morton M. Stack Memorial Lecture.
The illustrated lecture, scheduled for
the Spring Members Meeting on Satur-
day April 11, will be presented by
Shirley R. Howarth, Director of the
International Art Alliance in Tampa,
Florida.

Ms. Howarth is author of C. Paul
Jennewein, an American Sculptor, pub-
lished in October 1980. The mongraph,
funded by the NEA, compliments an
exhibition on Jennewein organized by
Ms. Howarth at the Tampa Museum.
The artist's collection of approximately
2,000 items was bequested to the
Tampa Bay Art Center in 1978.

Mr. Jennewein, whose medallic work
is well represented at the ANS, received
the Society’s J. Sanford Saltus Medal
Award in 1949.

be reported to the Secretary fifteen days
before the Annual Meeting. Councillors
shall serve for terms of five years and
until their successors are elected and
qualified.

Calendar

February

6 Medieval Club of New York
(paper by A.M. Stahl)

12 Society closed - Lincoln’s Birth-
day

13 New York Numismatic Club (talk
by A.M. Stahl)

24 Columbia University Medieval
Seminar (paper by A.M. Stahl)

26 Walters Art Gallery Symposium,
Baltimore (paper by N.M. Wag-
goner)

28 ANSMN 25 to members

March

3 Deadline for ANS Graduate Sem-
inar and ANS Graduate Fellow-
ship applications

5 Walters Art Gallery Symposium,
Baltimore (paper by W.E. Met-
calf)

6 Finance Comm. Meeting, 11:00
Executive Comm. Meeting, 1:30

11 Seminar at Brown University
(paper by N.M. Waggoner)

13-15 American Research Center in
Egypt, Boston (panel chaired by
M.L. Bates, paper by W.E.
Metcalf)

22-24 Association for Asian Studies
Annual Meeting, Toronto
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ested in the work of our Society.

Also elected was Howard Herz, Reno,
Nevada, who became an Associate in
1976. An expert on Latin American
coins, Mr. Herz has worked extensively
with the Society's collections and has
contributed generously to fill lacunae in
this series. Mrs. Adolph B. Hill, fey Oe
St. Louis, Missouri, has been a member
since 1962 and is President of the
International Banknote Society, as well
as a knowledgeable and helpful collector
of paper money and emergency curren-
cy. Edward Janis, an Associate since
1951, is a New York real estate investor
who specializes in the coinage of the
Holy Land. He is a frequent contributor
to and a member of the editorial board
of The Shekel, the journal of the
American Israel Numismatic Associa-
tion.

Fred S. Kleiner joined as an Associate
in 1969 while a graduate student at
Columbia and is now Assistant Profes-
sor of Art History at Boston University.
He is author of an impressive body of
numismatic work, principally on Athe-

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was placed on view in the Society's
West Exhibit Hall. This display, arrang-
ed by Society Librarian Francis Camp-
bell, gave visual testimony to the
breadth of Professor Kraay’s numisma-
tic research interests.

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nian and cistophoric coinages, including
The Early Cistophoric Coinage pub-
lished by the ANS, and is a frequent
lecturer at the Society's Graduate
Seminar. Brooks Emmons Levy, Curator
of the Firestone Library coin collection
at Princeton University, has been an
Associate since 1968. She attended the
Society's first Graduate Seminar in
Numismatics in 1952. Ira L. Rezak,
M.D., and an Associate since 1964, is a
member of the medical school faculty at
SUNY, Stony Brook, where he makes
his home. A serious collector of medical
medals and medals and coins pertaining
to Jewish history, he serves on the
Society's Medals and Decorations Com-
mittee as well as on the consulting
committee on coins and medals of the
Jewish Museum.

Louis C. Schroeder has held member-
ship in the Society since 1952. A
Richmond, Virginia, resident, he is
President and Principal of the Dixie
Container Corporation and associated
companies. The Society's extraordinary
collection of Meissen porcelain numis-
matic objects is the gift of Mr.
Schroeder’s father. James H. Schwartz,
M.D., of the Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons, has
been an Associate since 1971. With his
wife, Francis, he is currently classifying
the Society’s collection of ancient gems
and amulets. Their initial article on the
subject appeared in ANSMN 24.

The Society is indeed honored and
proud to add to its roll of Fellows these
fourteen individuals whose interests
and expertise represent a broad cross
section of numismatic endeavor.

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